{"product_id":"brick-city-vanguard-james-smethurst-9781625345141","title":"Brick City Vanguard: Amiri Baraka, Black Music, Black Modernity","description":"\u003cp\u003eAmiri Baraka is unquestionably the most recognized leader of the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s, and one of the key literary and cultural figures of the postwar United States. While Baraka's political and aesthetic stances changed considerably over the course of his career, \u003ci\u003eBrick City Vanguard\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates the continuity in his thinking about the meaning of black music in the material, psychic, and ideological development of black people. Drawing on primary texts, paratexts (including album liner notes), audio and visual recordings, and archival sources, James Smethurst takes a new look at how Baraka's writing on and performance of music envisioned the creation of an African American people or nation, as well as the growth and consolidation of a black working class within that nation, that resonates to this day. This vision also provides a way of understanding the encounter of black people with what has been called \"the urban crisis\" and a projection of a liberated black future beyond that crisis.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e James Smethurst\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1625345143\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781625345141\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Massachusetts Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/28\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 216\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.20w x 1.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2020","brand":"James Smethurst","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48088660607231,"sku":"9781625345141","price":90.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_13c507cd-ead9-42f2-9449-2303d072f6a9.jpg?v=1769105967","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/brick-city-vanguard-james-smethurst-9781625345141","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}